Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/deiwás

This Proto-Balto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *deywós.^[1]

Noun

*deiwás m^[2]

god

Inflection

Declension of *deiwás (o-stem, mobile accent)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*deiwás	*déiwōˀ	*deiwái⁽ˀ⁾
Accusative	*déiwan	*déiwōˀ	*déiwō⁽ˀ⁾ns
Genitive	*déiwā	*deiwā́u⁽ˀ⁾	*deiwṓn
Locative	*déiwai	*deiwā́u⁽ˀ⁾	*deiwáišu
Dative	*déiwōi	*deiwámā⁽ˀ⁾	*deiwámas
Instrumental	*déiwōˀ	*deiwámāˀ	*deiwṓis
Vocative	*déiwe	*déiwōˀ	*deiwái⁽ˀ⁾

Descendants

Proto-Baltic: *deiwas
- East Baltic: *dẹ̄vas
  - Latgalian: dīvs, dīws
  - Latvian: dìevs
  - Lithuanian: diẽvas
- West Baltic: *deiwas
  - Old Prussian: Deiwas, Deiws
  - ⇒ Sudovian: Deivas
Proto-Slavic: *divъ

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “dievas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 128: “*dei-u-o-”
^ Kim, Ronald (2018) “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook‎^[1], Berlin: de Gruyter, →ISBN

[1] Derksen, Rick (2015) “dievas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 128: “*dei-u-o-”

[2] Kim, Ronald (2018) “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook‎^[1], Berlin: de Gruyter, →ISBN

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